Enjoy For Free Perpetual Light Written By Alan Ryan Accessible Through Audio Book

but overall enjoyable. Some stories were pretty to very good! I think two or three were skips/semiskips, most due to offputting prose style, I get that theyre all dealing with very abstract ideas and philosophies but does the prose have to be abstract Lmao, I went back and realized these stories are from thes and some sort of presaged later works, One was literally Assassins Creed: Spanish Inquisition, Another was soooo It Follows, As for the themes purportedly tying all them together that was hit and miss, and they fell all across the scifi/speculative spectrum, Also my copy has a totem pole and Buddha on the front but the religious themes were very much Christian and very Catholic in imagery, and occasionally Jewish Absolutely excellent collection of science fiction/fantasy/horror/speculative fiction dealing with the nature of religion and faith, especially how it interacts with science, and how changes in future societies would shape faith and belief.
Only available through third party vendors, but definitely worth the price, Introductory essay by Alan Ryan
The Pope of the Chimps novelette by Robert Silverberg
Written in Water story by Tanith Lee
The Meat Box story by Daniel Gilbert
Ifrit story by R.
A. Lafferty
Contamination story by Richard Bowker
Instant With Loud Voices story by Alan Dean Foster
Firestorm story by Steve Rasnic Tem
Be Fruitful amp Multiply story by F.
Paul Wilson
The Emigrant story by Joel Rosenberg
Angel of the Sixth Circle novelette by Gregg Keizer
Judgment Day story by Frank Ward
The Theology of Water novelette by Hilbert Schenck
Hamburger Heaven story by Simon Hawke aka Nicholas

Yermakov
A Green Hill Far Away novelette by Michael P.
KubeMcDowell
Small Miracles story by Mel Gilden
Relativistic Effects novelette by Gregory Benford
God's Eyes story by Craig Shaw Gardner
St Joey the Action story by Shariann Lewitt
The Magi novelette by Damien Broderick
Lest Levitation Come Upon Us novelette by Suzette Haden Elgin
The Rose of Knock story by Alan Ryan
Confess the Seasons novella by Charles L.
Grant
A Private Whale novelette by Brian W, Aldiss Some good stories, some okay, and some not so great, Like most anthologies. Ironically, in the introduction to this book, the editor states, "There have been anthologies of short science fiction dealing with religion before, In general, they have not been all one might have hoped or expected, "
Well, add one more to the list, A massive almostpages anthology of science fiction and fantasy stories, all dealing in some way in many ways, actually with God and religion.
It was quite fascinating to see so many takes on the subject, This is a decent collection of speculative fiction dealing with religious themes nominated for the Locus Award for best collection, Alan Peter Ryan was an American author and editor, known for his work in the horror genre in thes, .